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From: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
	USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:37:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48923EA6.7040406@simon.arlott.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489238E9.6080602@simon.arlott.org.uk>

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On 31/07/08 23:12, Simon Arlott wrote:
> On 31/07/08 22:56, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:29:21PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote:
>>>>> There is nothing else to run between 1-2 and 3, so there is no 
>>>>> opportunity
>>>>> to initialise devices in the background and usblp_init blocks for a 
>>>>> while.
>>>> If it were a module then it would block in a separate thread and 
>>>> wouldn't hold up the main init process.
>>>
>>> Right, but I want to compile all of this into the kernel.
>>
>> Why?  It sounds like a trivial solution for you is to actually use
>> modules.  Why go through a lot of extra work to solve something in a
>> different way that is already solved for you?
> 
> Because it looks like doing HCD init early enough is a simple way to 
> speed up boot time if there are any compiled-in usb device drivers, 
> without running the HCD init itself from a separate thread.
> 
> Arjan, are you able to test this?
> I'll try doing what I've suggested later tonight if I have time.

I've tested this with fastboot disabled, the hcd initcalls changed 
back to module_init, all my drivers changed to late_initcall to 
force them to be later while usb/ is before net/ in the drivers/ 
Makefile.

-- 
Simon Arlott

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-31 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-20 15:59 [patch 4/3] fastboot: hold the BKL over the async init call sequence Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 16:00 ` [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-20 16:40   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-20 21:14   ` Daniel Walker
2008-07-20 21:23     ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-20 21:50     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 21:00   ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 21:04     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 21:12       ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 21:21         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-29 22:30           ` Rene Herman
2008-07-29 22:34             ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-30 14:08               ` Alan Stern
2008-07-30 18:25                 ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-30 19:41                   ` Alan Stern
2008-07-31 11:49                     ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 15:34                       ` Alan Stern
2008-07-31 18:29                         ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 18:56                           ` Rene Herman
2008-07-31 19:27                             ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 19:16                           ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 18:40                             ` [PATCH RFC] USB: Add HCD fastboot Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 19:11                               ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 19:20                                 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 19:29                                   ` Greg KH
2008-08-06 19:49                                   ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 19:56                                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-06 20:09                                       ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 20:17                                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-08-06 20:27                                           ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 20:07                                     ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 20:26                                       ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 21:49                                         ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-06 22:34                                           ` Alan Stern
2008-08-06 22:53                                             ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-07 14:14                                               ` Alan Stern
2008-08-07  3:29                                             ` David Brownell
2008-08-07  9:28                                           ` Emanoil Kotsev
2008-08-07 16:47                                             ` Alan Stern
2008-08-07  3:34                               ` David Brownell
2008-08-08  9:24                               ` Rene Herman
2008-08-08 11:29                                 ` Simon Arlott
2008-08-08 14:30                                   ` Rene Herman
2008-07-31 21:56                           ` [patch 5/3] fastboot: sync the async execution before late_initcall and move level 6s (sync) first Greg KH
2008-07-31 22:12                             ` Simon Arlott
2008-07-31 22:37                               ` Simon Arlott [this message]
2008-09-16 22:19                             ` Tim Bird

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